S.2663 - A bill to reform the Consumer Product Safety Commission to provide greater protection for children's products, to improve the sc Sponsor: Mark Pryor / 110th Congress

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110th Congress - A bill to reform the Consumer Product Safety Commission to provide greater protection for children's products, to improve the screening of noncompliant consumer products, to improve the effectiveness of consumer product recall programs, and for other purposes. hidemore...
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A bill to reform the Consumer Product Safety Commission to provide greater protection for children's products, to improve the screening of noncompliant consumer products, to improve the effectiveness of consumer product recall programs, and for other purposes. (by CRS)
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The bill has passed through committee and has been put on a legislative calendar.

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Bill would ban lead in children's products and will likely be made a law by Megan Luecke, Apr 10, 2008 (3:38am)

H.R. 4040, S. 2663, and S. 2045 all restrict the amount of harmful chemicals in children’s products, though H.R. 4040 has effectively replaced the other two bills. Unlike S. 2663 and S. 2045, the most recent version of H.R. 4040 does not require products to be tested with any frequency and only fines offendering companies up to $20 million, which is a small fine for large corporations. However, while it may not be as strict on manufacturers as the previous bills, H.R. 4040 does have many strong provisions. For example, it protects whistleblowers who speak up about violations, it requires advertisers to put cautionary labels in magazine or internet ads, it bans phalates in children’s products, it gives the Consumer Product Safety Commission and related agencies hundreds of millions of dollars over the next 6 years, it allows Attorneys General to sue manufacturers for violations, and it requires a publicly searchable database of incidents or risks of injuries and deaths resulting from consumer products.

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